My wonderful, gifted, brilliant friend and co-worker Margaux updated our company’s website with a graphic to go with some copy I wrote about their new e-books.
She pointed out that, had she the photo-shoot to do again, she’d show a hand from the thumb-side a hand. It didn’t strike me as odd when I looked at it, but now I see her point.
Funny that we have an innate sense of “rightness” about some things. I guess it’s taste, or instinct, or craft, or something. I haven’t ever been able to articulate this for myself, why I like one phrase more than another, or why some things are just wrong in my estimation — for instance, that a media-form should never refer to that same media-form. (“Gosh, this is just like a horror movie. Bobby, that isn’t funny. Bobby…?”)
It’s like the reverse of Aspergers’, but for creativity: You know the social conventions about not doing this or that, or that such and such is expected (and then you have the opportunity to either satisfy or defeat that expectation).
Just like I know not to do some things that some of my countrymen do, like stick their hand down the front of their trackie-bottoms: no one told me not to do that, but… c’mon.
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I started a DIY book episode last week and another blog entry, but lost them today when my computer a) refused to boot after I installed an update, and b) would only restore itself to a backup from last week, even though the thing’s been doing back-ups the whole time.
Lost work is unusual, but I figured I’d give my non-Mac friends an opportunity to gloat if they needed to. Bad machine-things happen to us all from time to time.
Still, I’m up and running, and should be re-producing these lost things shortly. (Because I’m still enough of a backup freak that I could find all the bits.)
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